"The most difficult thing is to recognize that sometimes we too are blinded by our own incentives. Because we donâ€™t see how our conflicts of interest work on us."

-- Dan Ariely

#Incentives Quotes #Sometimes Quotes #Conflict Quotes

“The measure of you as a leader is not what you do, but what others do because of what you do.”
“There are too many Destroyer records to just start rattling them left them off, but they're there.”
“Most recently, the President's reluctance to offend Senator Rick Santorum -- a Catholic theocrat who believes that states should have the power to arrest gay lovers in their bedrooms, or even to criminalize couples who use contraceptives -- was an occasion to wonder what, exactly, Mr. Bush was born-again into.”

Source : "God and George W. Bush". www.nytimes.com. May 17, 2003.
“The only clear view is from atop the mountain of your dead selves.”
“Paradoxically, the toddler's "No" is also a preliminary to his saying yes. It is a sign that he is getting ready to convert his mother's restrictions and prohibitions into the rules for behavior that will belong to him.”

Source : Louise J. Kaplan (1978). “Oneness and separateness: from infant to individual”, Touchstone
“I know that pain is the most important thing in the universes. Greater than survival, greater than love, greater even than the beauty it brings about. For without pain, there can be no pleasure. Without sadness, there can be no happiness. Without misery there can be no beauty. And without these, life is endless, hopeless, doomed and damned. Adult. You have become adult.”

Source : Harlan Ellison (2014). “Paingod: And Other Delusions”, p.36, Open Road Media
“I loved smart and fearless comedians like Joan Rivers and Don Rickles. When they started out, what they did wasn't always socially accepted, but they both had careers that lasted over 50 years.”
“You can recognize a small truth because its opposite is a falsehood. The opposite of a great truth is another truth.”

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